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by themoat 2847 days ago
I used to connect to REST (and SOAP/Graphql I guess, but that's not relevant) APIs for a living. Probably connected to about 200 or so. Swagger styled docs are only as good as the devs who write them. They have the potential to be pretty...but I couldn't care less about that.

Some of the worst docs I've ever seen used swagger. Some of the best I've seen used swagger, so the tool doesn't make the docs IMO.

I'd rather you email me a .txt file that's well organized and complete (including a damned baseURL, you heathens) than pretty swagger docs without substance.